Shadow Warrior 3 update 1.03 live now!

Hey there everyone! Today’s fortune cookie tells us there is a new patch for Shadow Warrior 3, which includes brand new Hardcore difficulty, a hard difficulty rebalance, and many more quality of life improvements. Let's give them a look!

Introducing - Hardcore difficulty!

On Hardcore difficulty, enemies hit even harder and use every opportunity to punish your mistakes. Resources also come in less generous numbers, so long story short Grasshopper - don't get hit and watch your aim! Last stand invulnerability timer has been reduced.

General Balance Changes.

• Katana fire attack projectile speed, explosion range and burn chance increased.
• Katana ice attack freeze effect duration reduced.
• Katana's electric attack range decreased.
• Sidekicks’ damage slightly increased and spread decreased.
• HP amount restored from the Finishers now varies with Difficulty.
• Adjusted the Health Points of certain enemies.
• Enemy Health Points are now the same across difficulties (except bosses).
• Shuriken Spitter does not register headshots anymore.
• Health and Ammo orbs respawn-time now varies with Difficulty.
• The amount of Health and Ammo restored from the orbs now varies with Difficulty.
• Last Stand invulnerability-time decreased.
• Thorn's damage now varies with Difficulty.
• Kugutsu accuracy and projectile speed increased.
• Laser Shogun laser now stops on enemies.
• Riot Gun range slightly decreased.
• Oni Hanma's stagger delay increased.
• Lifetime for Seeking Eye and Blade of Hattori have been reduced.
• Removed temporary invincibility after usage of Brain Tonic.

Fixes and Improvements

• Various Balance changes (see below).
• Fix for Achievements not unlocking in rare cases.
• Fix for an unwanted second attack being made with the upgraded Katana if the weapon wheel was used during an attack.
• Fix for the Shuriken Spitter not causing damage during some attacks on the Guardian of The Heart.
• Fix for a bug where the player might get locked in the Guardian of The Heart’s third phase on Hard difficulty.
• Fix for Shogai not reacting to Katana hits if they are performing a melee attack at the time.
• Fix for headshots on Kugutsu from Sidekicks making the ragdoll spin.
• Fix for one of the upgrade points on "The Fast and the Furry" disappearing after the player respawns.
• Fix for some weapons not shooting when the "ranged attack" input is being held while switching between guns.
• Various User Interface fixes.
• Fixes for when the player could fall out of the world.
• Fixes for players leaving the gameplay space.
• Additional checkpoint added to "Doomsday Device" level.
• FOV minimum value set to 80.
• Various progression issues fixed.
• Fix for Thorns popping up inappropriately.
• Fix for a bug where the Thorns wouldn't wither on the final arena of "Egg Express".
• Fixed various edge case logic bugs in various levels.
• Fix for a bug where the player could move with the Tanuki in their hands. Shame.
• Fixed LoD and popping issues in various places.
• Fix for a rare crash when performing a Finisher on Chef Oboro Guruma.
• Various performance enhancements.
• Fix for tutorial messages staying on screen after the player's death.
• Fix for the weapon disappearing when the weapon change was performed right before a cutscene had started.
• Fix for a bug where the player could shoot their weapons during transition cutscenes.
• Fix for the Grappling Hook remaining open after performing certain actions.
• Updates for French, Spanish and Russian localization.
• (PC) Fix for the weapon disappearing when trying to choose an unobtained weapon using keyboard shortcuts.